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    P1.05 - Poster Session/ Prevention and Tobacco Control (ID 215)

    • Event: WCLC 2015
    • Type: Poster
    • Track: Prevention and Tobacco Control
    • Presentations: 1
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      P1.05-009 - EGCG Regulated Ku70 Acetylation for Apoptosis in Human Lung Cancer A549 Cells (ID 194)

      09:30 - 09:30  |  Author(s): Q.H. Gu

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      Background:
      Lung cancer is one of the malignant tumors whose global incidence and mortality are very high. The chemoprevention has become an important prevention and control means of lung cancer except for giving up smoking and early detection. Research has showed the main component in green tea (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is a potential chemopreventive agent for various tumors, especially lung cancer.

      Methods:
      The cells in each group were treated with different concentrations of EGCG for a certain time in the experiment. Two gene point mutation plasmid were constructed and transfected in A549 cells. Induction of apoptosis was examined using AnnexinV/Pl double staining flow cytometry. Western Blot detected the protein expressions of Bax, Bcl-xl and Caspase-3. Co-immunoprecipitation was used to detect the interaction of Ku70-Bax and acetylation status of Ku70. P<0.05 showed the difference had statistical significance.

      Results:
      Treatment of A549 cells with EGCG induced apoptosis with increasing expression of Bax and Caspase-3, but decreasing expression of Bcl-xl. EGCG could up-regulate K70 acetylation status of A549 cells，then down-regulate the interaction of Bax-Ku70 in the manner of concentration and time dependent. The apoptosis-promoting effect of EGCG on A549 cells was obviously weakened with the interaction of Bax-Ku70 strengthened and Caspase-3 (17KDa) expression declining after pCDNA3.1(+)-Ku70 plasmid and pCDNA3.1(+) -Ku70[539/542R] plasmid transfection.

      Conclusion:
      The authors induced apoptosis in human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells after treatment with EGCG, and it was realized by interfering the interaction between Ku70 and Bax through regulating K70 acetylation. It verified that two loci K539 and K542 of Ku70 acetylation might play a crucial role in EGCG inducing apoptosis of A549 cells.

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    P2.04 - Poster Session/ Biology, Pathology, and Molecular Testing (ID 234)

    • Event: WCLC 2015
    • Type: Poster
    • Track: Biology, Pathology, and Molecular Testing
    • Presentations: 1
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      P2.04-056 - Analysis of EGFRvIII, PIK3CA, and DDR2 Mutations in Chinese Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients (ID 300)

      09:30 - 09:30  |  Author(s): Q.H. Gu

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      Background:
      As the role of targeted therapy of lung adenocarcinoma affirming, people pay more attention to targeted therapy of squamous cell lung cancer . EGFRvIII , PIK3CA and DDR2 genes become research hotspots as targeted therapy of potential squamous cell lung cancer. However there are few reports on the state of these genes in Chinese patients. Therefore, this study intends to conduct PIK3CA, DDR2 and EGFRvⅢ genetic testing on the surgical specimens from Chinese lung squamous cell carcinoma patients, in order to understand the gene status of Chinese lung squamous cell carcinoma patients and its relationship with clinical factors.

      Methods:
      This study collected 100 surgical tissue samples of lung squamouscarcinoma patients from Xiangya Hospital of Central South University. All patients had not received preoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy. EGFRvIII gene was detected by Immunofluorescence，PIK3CA and DDR2 was detected by direct sequencing. X[2 ]test was applied to analyze the relationship of each gene mutation, expression and clinical characteristics (age, gender, smoking status, tumor stage, tumor differentiation), and two-sided test P <0.05 is considered statistically significant.

      Results:
      Patient Enrollment A total of 100 cases met eligibility for this study. Clinicopathologic characteristics of 100 patients are shown in Table 1.

      Table 1 Detailed Clinicopathologic Characteristics of 100 Lung Squamous Cell Carcinomas
      Variable No. (%)
      Total patients 100
      Age
      ＜60y 59(59)
      ≥60y 41(41)
      Sex
      Male 92(92)
      Female 8(8)
      Smoking
      Smoker 82(82)
      Never Smoker 18(18)
      TNM stage
      Stage I 20(20)
      Stage II 23(23)
      Stage IIIa 57(57)
      Stage IIIb 0(0)
      Stage IV 0(0)
      Differentiation
      Poor 26(26)
      Moderate 65(65)
      Well 9(9)
      EGFRvIII expression and mutational spectrum of PIK3CA, DDR2 In the 100 cases of lung squamous cell carcinoma specimens, 15 cases were positive of EGFRvIII gene staining (15%); 5 cases of PIK3CA mutation (5%), of which all occurred on 9th exon E545K; among all tested specimens, no DDR2 mutation was found. Correlation between clinicopathologic characteristics and status of EGFRvIII expression, and PIK3CA mutantion The EGFRvIII gene expression and PIK3CA gene mutation in the patients’ age, gender, smoking, TNM stage and tumor differentiation had no statistically significant difference.

      Conclusion:
      This study found out that the PIK3CA mutation rate in Chinese lung squamous cell carcinoma patients was higher than in Westerners.

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